Physicians To Help in Gun Confiscation Effort


Nanny State Seeks Your Personal Information

It is obvious that the Obama administration and the federal government would be much happier if the 2nd Amendment that safeguards individual rights to bear arms would simply disappear.  An armed citizenry is the best way to keep government honest, so naturally Obama is willing to do almost anything to take your guns away, and using duplicitous doctors and phony statistics is just one small step in that direction. Obama has gotten one more flunky in the person of Dr. Fleegler to say the following at a recent conference that he attended.

“One in five deaths in young people ages 15 to 29 are from firearms — a stunning number,” said Fleegler. “If these were deaths due to cancer, we would find this outrageous.”

Fleegler was a research principal in a study published by JAMA Internal Medicine titled “Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States,” which concluded:

A higher number of firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of firearm fatalities in the state, overall and for suicides and homicides individually. As our study could not determine cause-and-effect relationships, further studies are necessary to define the nature of this association.

To encourage a public health approach to gun violence, Fleegler recommends that clinicians ask about gun ownership while taking patient health histories in their offices. He also calls for increased firearm legislation, including laws related to safe storage, trigger locks, and criminal background checks for all gun purchases.

Fleegler also urges that firearms be regulated as a consumer product – and thus regulated by consumer safety laws – and said an increase in the amount of data collection performed on gun-related fatalities and firearm sales would assist with more funding for firearm-related research.

“It’s insane that firearms are not regulated, considering the number of people who are maimed and killed by guns,” he told Medscape. “Teddy bears are regulated.”

The American Academy of Pediatrics endorses gun control. Its official position on firearms asserts that the absence of firearms in homes and communities is “the most effective measure to prevent suicide, homicide, and unintentional firearm-related injuries.”

Dr. Fleeglers’s arguments reflect the gun control or gun confiscation crowds arguments about gun safety, and stating that firearms are not currently regulated is simply ludicrous. But it is even more chilling to see him calling for physician questions about gun ownership to be included in patient health histories when meeting with patients. People often disclose more than they should to an authority figure such as a doctor, and the new electronic record keeping system will make it that much easier for the Federal Government to access information about who has what weaponry and how it is stored. This is simply the anti-gun crowd’s attempt to establish the Federal gun registry that gun owners have so decisively rejected since it will lead inevitably to gun confiscation.
But the other part of Dr. Fleeglers’s duplicity is equally vile. He talks about statistics, and who can argue with statistics, right? 
But when he says that 1 in 5 deaths occurring to young people between the ages of 15 and 29, he intentionally leaves out that fact that the vast majority of those deaths are gang related shootings and unlawful activities such as burglaries. 
Of guns used in those crimes, few are obtained legally, so gun registration, stiffening of gun laws and acquisition, and safe gun storage have little, if nothing to do with accidental deaths that are gun related, and much more to do with out-of-control gang-bangers and criminals who will be affected not at all by the laws Fleegler would have us put into place.
It is tragic that one of the more trusted figures in the public eye, physicians, are being manipulated and mislead in order to hand over more control and information to the government.
Dr. Fleegler, shill for Obama and the anti-gun lobby, should be ashamed!
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